How do we adapt the curriculum and the environment?

At St Barnabas, we implement high quality teaching for all, as a first response to SEND support.  Teachers will assess and monitor progress and identify barriers to learning and respond by adjusting the curriculum or the physical environment.

 

In order to support pupils, we might provide:

 

Additional spellings, additional maths, additional reading, fine or gross motor support, language groups and social skills groups

 

Making adjustments and adaptations

 

We will ensure that effective scaffolding through resources, models and images are incorporated into lessons and additional interventions and teaching styles, strategies and approaches are adapted in order to meet the individual needs of the child.

 

We might adapt the curriculum by:

Adapting our Staffing

Using pre-teaching

Using flexible grouping,

Allowing longer processing time

Giving chunked instructions (instructions broken down into stages).

 

We may also provide resources such as:

Task boards, visual timetables, coloured overlays, timers, use of ICT, Dyslexia friendly font and larger print.

 

In our classrooms, we use neutral displays, pastel shades on whiteboards, provide individual workstations and privacy screens.